Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things which were then done through the Brooks House. In all the councils of the House since he laid down his office, his knowledge and sympathy have been invaluable. He gave without reserve of his time and energy. His judgment was almost unerring, his candor and directness refreshing, his humor and appreciation of the standpoint of the students a great aid. In the notable development of the House as a center of charitable and social work in the application of religion, the outstanding thing was Beane's own sincere and simple religiousness and his feeling that true religion...
...sperience in washin' eagles.'" That is the way Mr. Stewart, himself a Yale graduate, felt about addressing Harvard audiences, he declared; but his present lecture tour with its attendant hardships has prepared him for the ordeal of disclosing to them the history of his life. His humor only came into its own, he said, when he left business as a profession some four years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase of a business career was terminated by the war, when he entered the Navy and during the war gave...
...took up humor as a profession four years ago," he said, "at the outbreak of the modern generation." And here, Mr. Stewart lapsed into a seriousness which interested his hearers even more than his humor. In the age of the "lowly arts," of crude, bare writings, of jazz, he detects a sort of Renaissance of literature and of art and a new emancipation from the ties of European precedent. Freed at last from conventional forms, America, he predicts, will advance in culture far beyond Europe, which is now a land whose development is stifled by hate...
...Stewart closed with an attempt to analyze the modern trend in humor. "It sort of spoils humor to talk about it, but a new type of humor that I call 'divine craziness' is coming over us," he explained, and showed his meaning by the story of a drunk who came home with a long cut on the top of his head. "How did you cut yourself?" his wife asked. "I bit myself," was the reply. "How did you bite yourself so high up?" "I stood on a chair...
...David Kirkwood, Labor member for Dumbarton, is what the English call a "character"-which means that he is not amenable to discipline or respectful of convention. A typical Scot, he is certainly one of the most outstanding men of the Parliamentary Labor Party and, in spite of his rough humor and coarse tactics, is well liked by the Liberals and most of the Conservatives...